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Easy Thai Coconut Curry Chicken

A recipe for Thai Coconut Curry Chicken, a quick and easy skillet meal.

Low-Carb Lemon Bars

These low-carb lemon bars are sugar-free and gluten-free. Fresh lemon juice is much better than bottled for this recipe, and the zest of the lemon adds lots more flavor.

Berry Protein Shake

This high protein shake is low carb and sugar-free. The medium-chain fatty acids in the coconut milk will keep you going for a long time!

Low-Carb Sesame Crackers

These cheesy sesame crackers are low-carb and gluten-free, and are sturdy enough to stand up to dips and spreads.

Super-Easy Guacamole

Delicious guacamole, thrown together in 5 minutes. A very easy way to get kudos on your cooking!

Warm Spinach Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing

This version of the classic warm (or wilted) spinach salad can easily be made into a meal by adding chopped cooked chicken, turkey, or even fish or tofu. Chopped egg is also a classic option. If you want more vegetables, mushrooms and red pepper work especially well.

Low Carb Broccoli Salad with Bacon

Most traditional broccoli salad recipes have a fair amount of sugar, due to raisins as well as sugar in the dressing. I've attempted to reduce the sugar, but keep the same salty-sweet flavor combination of the classic cold broccoli salad, with bits of bacon and sunflower seeds.

Focaccia-Style Flax Bread

I called this "focaccia" because it is baked in that style - flat on a sheet pan, and then cut up into whatever sized pieces you want. It works for toast, sandwiches, and other bready uses.

Low-Carb Banana Bread

This recipe for banana bread is low-carb, sugar-free, and gluten-free. And yummy!

Low-Carb Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

Recipe for low-carb sugar-free blueberry (or raspberry) cream cheese coffee cake made with sour cream. Wheat-free and gluten-free. Rich and yummy!

Low-Carb Clam Chowder

This authentic-tasting New England clam chowder has a fraction of the carbohydrate in the regular kind. This chowder is a true low-carb comfort food.

Low-Carb Cosmopolitan Cocktail

Cosmopolitan cocktails are festive and fun to drink. Cosmos also have quite a lot of sugar. Here's how to make a low-carb and low-calorie Cosmopolitan.

Easy Blue Cheese Dressing

You can whip this blue cheese dressing up in two minutes. There's absolutely no reason to pour the watered-down bottled dressing with very little blue cheese in it on your lovely salad!

Low Carb Chocolate Rum Balls

No cooking involved for this yummy holiday snack, Valentine bon-bon, or great last-minute gift. Contains erythritol or other sugar alcohol.

Low-Carb Biscotti

Looking for something sugar-free to dunk in your tea or coffee? These low-carb biscotti have plain almond and chocolate chip variations. Gluten-free, too!

Skillet Chicken Divan

You can make this low-carb version of chicken divan on the stovetop and run it under the broiler if you want. Or forget the broiler and just serve and eat. Classic comfort food.

Low-Carb Stuffing

One of the tricks to making low-carb stuffing is to use a lot of vegetables. Another is to use a bread made without a lot of starch. This stuffing can be cooked inside a turkey or chicken, cooked on the stovetop, or baked in the oven in a casserole dish.

Green Bean Casserole with Onion Topping

A low carb adaptation of the classic green bean casserole with onion topping.

Sugar-Free Margaritas

Recipe for low-carb, sugar-free margaritas.

Low-Carb Egg Nog Recipes

Several methods for making sugar-free/low-carb egg nog.

Unstuffed Cabbage

Easy version of stuffed cabbage -- all the same flavors without stuffing. The caraway seeds make all the difference. Can be made in oven or slow cooker (crock pot).

Sugar-Free Strawberry Daiquiri

This sugar-free frozen strawberry daiquiri can also be made without the rum for a summer drink for adults or kids.

Tropical Colada Drink - Nonalcoholic

This low-carb sugar-free "pina colada" type drink is refreshing on a summer's day.

Italian Squash Casserole

Italian-inspired squash casserole recipe. You can use zucchini or any other summer squash in this basil and garlic-flavored casserole.

Southwest Squash Casserole

This summer squash casserole actually comes out somewhat like a corn casserole. The yellow squash is put through a food processor, giving it more of a corn-like consistency.

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